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BT has accused its fellow broadband providers of failing to look after their
networks after a series of web outages this week.

Internet engineers believe that recent glitches in internet service have been
caused by ageing routers, which direct internet traffic around the world.
Older versions of the hardware have reached saturation point and are unable
to handle a rapidly growing number of internet connections.

A BT spokeswoman said that outages could be prevented “by network providers
managing the routers in their core network more effectively”. She said that
BT’s network was not affected because it was designed to cope